London & South East Regional Discussion 17th January 2013, 12z onwards

[West Sussex Kate]

A few small flakes falling here.

yes nice surprise! I didn't think we would see any snow today.

[abovefreezing]

Temps creeping up

Was -2.4 @ 6pm ish

Now 0.6

.....BTW lol @ the (sudden) "maturity issues" people are having tonight -- never knew the London weather guy had soooo many aliarses!

Edited January 17, 2013 by abovefreezing

[MPfreeUK]

Jut drive home from work in Tunbridge Wells, Kent... As soon as I got home to Crawley, West Sussex, halfway in to crawley, very lightly snowing.

No flakes seen around until then

Car reading -1 between Tubridge Wells and East Grinstead and 0 between East Grinstead and Crawley

Edited January 17, 2013 by MPfreeUK

[jojobut]

Little bits of Snow floating around in the air, Temp 1.4, Dew -5.5 (according to my station anyway)

[EML Network]

I'm in BN2 area its 0.4 here? Strange

very bizzare, I'm in Mile Oak, temperature is a balmy 4.0 !! but the dew point is at -1.7...and we have a few flakes falling every once in a while

Edited January 17, 2013 by EML Network

[Rinse The Raindrops]

Steve can you update on Mondays snow chances as met office still have it as rain

The weatherview forecast on news 24 was heavy snow right across southeast over weekend Sat and Sun

[SMU]

Steve can you update on Mondays snow chances as met office still have it as rain

The UKMO have rain because the raw UKMO has a front sweeping through with milder SW winds trailing-

UKMO 96

http://www.meteociel.fr/ukmo/runs/2013011712/UW96-21.GIF?17-18

Where as the ECM has

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/ecmwf/runs/2013011712/ECM1-96.GIF?17-0

So the UKMO will show rain until tomorrow until the t84 UKMO 00z updates to a more southerly track for that low-

S

[Nath]

Clear here still. Temp still holding at 2.1C, pressure falling slightly.

[JMTD]

What's the chances looking like for tomorrow Cambridge area wise? Don't tell me we're going to just miss it, please!

Need snow!

[StLuke]

Went from -2.7 to -1.1 since 7.30 tonight, amazing what a bit of cloud cover and breeze of the estuary can do!

[SMU]

18Z GFS has 30 hours of snow- then a 12 hour break- before another 12/18 hours of snow pushing up from the south-

Which is slightly further west on the 18z capturing more of the region-

round 1 estimates 8-13cm.

round 2 estimates ( yet to firm up- 3-7)

S

[abovefreezing]

SE'lys give me the willies.

Edited January 17, 2013 by abovefreezing

[Tom Jarvis]

A few small flakes falling here.

Not got anything here in nutley yet so hope it keeps moving east

Edited January 17, 2013 by Tom Jarvis

[john mac]

Darren bett just showed what looked like heavy snow for our region on Sunday, with snow showing from Sussex and Kent right up the east coast to Newcastle and beyond.

[Radiating Dendrite]

Yep, we are at 0.9c now from - 1.5c at 6pm.

Looking like tomorrow is still upgrading. Could a few surprises I think!

[Alpine glow]

im in mile oak ,it snowed very lightly earlier and was still 3.3 .Might go and kick my weather station lol

We got a tiny tiny bit of the snow that then stopped over Worthing and seems to be moving northwards!

[Marie]

very bizzare, I'm in Mile Oak, temperature is a balmy 4.0 !! but the dew point is at -1.7...and we have a few flakes falling every once in a while

where abouts in mile oak EML? Obviously not asking for exact location lol just trying to work out the difference in temps .

[Weathizard]

very bizzare, I'm in Mile Oak, temperature is a balmy 4.0 !! but the dew point is at -1.7...and we have a few flakes falling every once in a while

I am in east Brighton perhaps the colder air is with us first? Did have a dramatic drop from 3.2 to 1.3 within an hour earlier. Also could be as I'm slightly elevated

[Rinse The Raindrops]

Yep

Always makes me nervous when SEasterlies are driving our weather, so many sleet events here due to the warm estuary, think we are 100% going to get away with tomorrow due to frigid weather in france and -9c Uppers, but usually fills me with dread! Lots of cloud now just offshore and moving NW Quite quickly, still clear overhead

Yes I don't want you panicking like last Feb when that snow was moving up from the west I had snow you said it looked like sleet you said you had a bad feeling but in the morning is was great!

[Jayces]

I asked my kids school if they are open tomorrow, and they looked at me like, yes it's a friday why bother asking, and just said yes we are. So I guess it's a case of checking there web site in the morning.

I do IT support for the majority of Croydon schools and one told us today they were closing tomorrow.

Thought that was a bit premature but hey ho.

[spayne]

light snow here in N London

[Tom Jarvis]

The UKMO have rain because the raw UKMO has a front sweeping through with milder SW winds trailing-

UKMO 96

http://www.meteociel.fr/ukmo/runs/2013011712/UW96-21.GIF?17-18

Where as the ECM has

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/ecmwf/runs/2013011712/ECM1-96.GIF?17-0

So the UKMO will show rain until tomorrow until the t84 UKMO 00z updates to a more southerly track for that low-

S

Thanks Steve

[Guest bjaykent]

Have been on the edge of that cloud to the west for about five hours now and throughout this time temp has stayed pretty constant at -1c

[Roadrunner]

Good news day this.

On a serious note, is (if this doesn't say cockroft when referring to a bbc forecaster, I have maturity issues) Cockroft on twitter? Surely if someone tweeted him to ask him to join Netweather he would oblige?

[West Sussex Kate]

forgot to say im in billingshurst and the temp here is 2c

Edited January 17, 2013 by West Sussex Kate